Stage Details

Legislation -
Vetoed
(Executive)
-
Nov. 3, 1999

Vote Result

Yea Votes

Nay Votes

Vote Smart's Synopsis:

Vote to adopt a conference report that would appropriate $429.1 million in federal funds to the District of Columbia, authorize the District's $6.8 billion budget, and provide $313.6 billion to the Departments of Labor, Education, and Health and Human Services.

Highlights:

Institutes a 0.97 percent government wide discretionary spending cut.

$39.8 billion for Department of Health and Human Services, $17.9 billion for the National Institutes of Health, $2.5 billion for substance and mental health abuse treatment, $4.4 billion for AIDS prevention and treatment activities.

$35 billion for the Education Department, $6.04 billion for special education, $773.8 million for the identification, treatment and prevention of school violence, and $180 million for GEAR UP, a program to assist low-income children prepare for college.

$11.2 billion for the Labor Department, including $1.3 billion for the Job Corps program.

$176 million for the administration and operation of the District's correctional facilities.

$99.71 million for the District's courts.

Allows private organizations that receive federal funds to run needle exchange programs, provided that none of the federal funds are used for these programs.

Bars the use of public funds to give health insurance benefits to domestic partners of city employees.

Bars the use of funds to offer abortion services, except in cases of rape or incest or if the woman's life is in danger.

Bars the District from proposing a ballot initiative to legalize marijuana for medical uses.

Bars the District from using its own funds to lobby for direct voting representation in Congress.

Vote Result

Yea Votes

Nay Votes

Vote Smart's Synopsis:

Vote to adopt a conference report that would appropriate $429.1 million in federal funds to the District of Columbia, authorize the District's $6.8 billion budget, and provide $313.6 billion to the Departments of Labor, Education, and Health and Human Services.

Highlights:

Institutes a 0.97 percent government wide discretionary spending cut.

$39.8 billion for Department of Health and Human Services, $17.9 billion for the National Institutes of Health, $2.5 billion for substance and mental health abuse treatment, $4.4 billion for AIDS prevention and treatment activities.

$35 billion for the Education Department, $6.04 billion for special education, $773.8 million for the identification, treatment and prevention of school violence, and $180 million for GEAR UP, a program to assist low-income children prepare for college.

$11.2 billion for the Labor Department, including $1.3 billion for the Job Corps program.

$176 million for the administration and operation of the District's correctional facilities.

$99.71 million for the District's courts.

Allows private organizations that receive federal funds to run needle exchange programs, provided that none of the federal funds are used for these programs.

Bars the use of public funds to give health insurance benefits to domestic partners of city employees.

Bars the use of funds to offer abortion services, except in cases of rape or incest or if the woman's life is in danger.

Bars the District from proposing a ballot initiative to legalize marijuana for medical uses.

Bars the District from using its own funds to lobby for direct voting representation in Congress.